Obama's campaign whisperer — Barack Obama's top advisers are making a mid-"core" correction in their attacks on Mitt Romney — with a little nudge from Bill Clinton, who is finding a niche as an Obama campaign whisperer and fundraiser. — Late last year, as Romney galloped to the right …

Poll: Just three percent have favorable view of John Edwards — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — (CBS News) With opening arguments in the trial of former U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards set …

Romney's healthcare plan may be more revolutionary than Obama's — Instead of getting coverage at work, more Americans would shop for it on their own. That would mean more choices — and more risk. — Republican candidate Mitt Romney says he would dump President Obama's healthcare overhaul and replace it with something else.

Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals — WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power …

An $8 billion trick? — Call it President Obama's Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department. — Only this isn't some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term.

Underemployed college grads is a good thing — I know. I am Mister Insensitivity but into each life a little rain must come. That is why an Associated Press story on the difficulties of recent college graduates facing joblessness or underemployment warmed the cockles of my heart.

The Path of a Spurious President Obama Quote — A New York Post editorial says (in a passage that has since been corrected on the site): … The trouble is that President Obama didn't say “unlike some people” (see the portion starting about 9:20 in this video, and this official transcript).

HOW THE MEDIA COVERED THE 2012 PRIMARY CAMPAIGN — LESS HORSE RACE THAN 2008 — By Tom Rosenstiel, Mark Jurkowitz and Tricia Sartor of PEJ — Mitt Romney needed 15 weeks once the primary contests began to gain a secure hold over his party's nomination for president.

Gorbachev, in Chicago, on Obama: ‘I will support him’ — Former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and actor and philanthropist Sean Penn at Von Steuben High School as part of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. Gorbachev's interpreter Pavel Palazhchenko is at left. Rich Hein~Sun-Times.

Poll: Obama vs. Romney a ‘toss-up’ in Arizona — With the 2012 presidential election just over six months away, the latest statewide Merrill/Morrison Institute poll found that Arizonans are evenly divided on whom they will support in November. — According to the poll of 488 registered voters …

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher can't enter Afghanistan — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Monday he was denied entry into Afghanistan because of his critical views of that country's government. — “Apparently, [Afghanistan President Hamid] …

Hugh Hefner: GOP ‘war against sex’ — Although it's his magazine, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner doesn't frequently take to its pages to wax poetic about one thing or another. In the May issue, however, Hefner pens a rare, full-page editorial on an unsurprising topic: Sex. — This time, it's political, however.

Mitt Romney Will Filter Your Porn — In these two video from Iowa in 2007 — back when he was running as a culture warrior — the former Massachusetts Governor said President Romney would require that every new computer come with a pornography “filter.” This may not actually be popular.

Watch out! Is the Fed pushing us into another bubble? — The economy is getting back on track, so maybe it's time for policy makers to loosen their grip on interest rates. — By Sheila Bair, contributor — FORTUNE — In a recent series of college lectures, Ben Bernanke sounded a positive note …

Obama lead nears double digits in New Hampshire — President Obama continues to hold a substantial lead over Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, despite the presumptive Republican nominee's heavy campaigning in the state. — The WMUR/Granite State Poll shows Obama with a nine-point lead over Romney …

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